My e-mail address is wjamesau at well dot com. If you have an e-mail to send me (and I hope you do) please send it there. My previous e-mail address, [email protected], has just been defunct-ified by Linden Lab. When I left the company in 2006, my friend the talented and lovely Charity Linden set up that address so it forwarded anything sent there to my civilian addresses. Now, however, citing security concerns, the Lindens closed that account. (Should I blame Lulzsec?) It's possible an unstated concern was that the address wrongly implied I still worked for the company (and in fairness, some have misinterpreted it to believe just that.) At any rate, they were nice enough to add an auto-reply to [email protected], so anyone e-mailing that address will at least be told to re-send it.
So once again, please contact me at wjamesau at well dot com. Yes, that's from the WELL, another, earlier virtual community that like Second Life was also once the toast of the tech world. (Read this great 1997 Wired cover story on it.) The WELL is still around, albeit it in a much reduced state from the time Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, and rocker Billy Idol were regular visitors, and I suspect it'll be around in perpetuity. So hit me up there!
i thought you've been declared persona non grata that's why your email was revoked. good to hear it's not the case.
Posted by: Chenin Anabuki | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Did they give you advance warning, Hamlet, or did they treat you like the other residents?
Posted by: Franklin Lubitsch | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Hardening security is a good thing and email systems are usually an easy target. LL's internal email system should not be connected to the internet and their [email protected] email system should not be part of their internal network and be accessible via webmail only.
Compartmentalization is the only path to security.
Posted by: Ann Otoole InSL | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 01:03 PM
You may want to create an email address like [email protected] so that you can keep the same email address forever and use the email provider of your choice (e.g. Google Apps, Zoho mail, etc.). Then if you find you don't like your current email provider, you can change to another one.
Posted by: Troy McConaghy | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 08:09 PM
Thanks a good idea!
They gave me a few days heads-up, Franklin.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 11:36 AM